What does bucket shop mean?
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buck·et shop
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Princeton's WordNet
bucket shopnoun
an unethical or overly aggressive brokerage firm
bucket shopnoun
(formerly) a cheap saloon selling liquor by the bucket
Wiktionary
bucket shopnoun
A stockbroking firm which takes small orders from clients and takes them on its own account rather than actually transmitting them to the market. Prevalent in the US 1870s to 1920s; often setup as shop-fronts in the 1920s.
bucket shopnoun
A stockbroking firm which sells stock to clients when it has an undisclosed relationship with that company or its owners.
bucket shopnoun
a travel agency selling discounted airfares, usually in defiance of existing minimum fare arrangements. Now usually refers to any small cheap agency.
bucket shopnoun
a legal services firm selling heavily discounted legal services and documents made in large volume from boilerplate text and clauses, sometimes as a white labelled loss leader
Etymology: bucket + shop
ChatGPT
bucket shop
A bucket shop is a fraudulent brokerage firm that engages in unethical business practices, such as conducting unauthorized trades on a customer's behalf or selling stocks that they do not actually own or will not deliver. They are often associated with schemes where the goal is to manipulate stock prices for the firm's own benefit, at the expense of their customers. Bucket shops are illegal and are typically characterized by high-pressure sales tactics, misinformation and deception. The term originally referred to places where people could bet on stock prices without actually buying the stocks.
Webster Dictionary
Bucket shop
an office or a place where facilities are given for betting small sums on current prices of stocks, petroleum, etc
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of bucket shop in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of bucket shop in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
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